By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist Last time I suggested we were barking up the wrong tree by quoting statistics for car-pedestrian crash survivability. A 1995 article in the British Medical Journal asked how often people were hurt by cars. “How dangerous is the street?” is a more interesting question than “how dangerous is the […]
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These Cherries Are Delicious, But Deadly
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist You’ve probably heard the factoid: so many percent of pedestrians die when hit by cars going at such and such a speed. At best, these figures were cherry picked from several studies of pedestrian safety coming to different conclusions. At worst, these figures are fabrications. The most common false […]
Justice, Injustice, Or Payback?
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist The Boston Globe published what’s intended to be an exposé of lax handling of drunk driving cases in Massachusetts. The conviction rate in DUI cases is 90%. Reporters want it to be over 95%. 85% of defendants plead guilty. Half of jury trials end with convictions. Most bench trials (with […]
Tell Me A Fairy Tale
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist A federally funded study (released earlier this month) warns that texting while driving is more dangerous than previous studies may have led you to believe. If the PR cycle follows its typical course this will be followed by a federally funded campaign for more federally funded enforcement. Here’s the […]
What Do You Mean, I Look Fast?
By John Carr, NMA Massachusetts Activist We reported last year that the Ohio Supreme Court considered a police officer’s visual estimate of speed sufficiently accurate to uphold a conviction for speeding. A law overturning that ruling went into effect September 30.
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